This is not the first time Vij has targetted Rahul Gandhi. In an earlier statement, Vij had said that his election as Congress president would help Prime Minister Narendra Modi in making India “Congress Free.”

Kumaraswamy reportedly told Congress leaders that it has been the convention in coalition government in Karnataka to allow the junior partner to keep the finance portfolio.

According to Congress sources, Sonia Gandhi will be travelling abroad for her annual medical examination. She had undergone a surgery in the US in 2011.

In response to Rahul Gandhi's mock report card of NDA govt, BJP's official Twitter handle today shared an animated video, recounting Congress' failures in past four years. 

Former Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah, deputy chief minister G Parameshwara, state party in charge KC Venugopal, and senior leaders Mallikarjun Kharge and DK Shivakumar attended the meeting called by Rahul Gandhi.

Gandhi, in a Twitter post, gave the BJP-led government ‘F’ in four parameters: agriculture, foreign policy, fuel prices and job creation.

Rahul Gandhi is scheduled to visit Mandsaur district of Madhya Pradesh on June 6. Ahead of his visit, his close confidante Meenakshi Nataran has quit from the Congress's manifesto committee.

As Prime Minister Narendra Modi accepted the Fitness Challenge thrown by cricketer Virat Kohli on Twitter, Rahul Gandhi posed another challenge before him to reduce the rising fuel prices in the country, else face a nationwide stir.

This will be Kumarawamy's second term as the chief minister of Karnataka since 2007, when he last held the post for 20 months.

Janata Dal (Secular) chief HD Kumaraswamy took oath as Karnataka chief minister on Wednesday. Congress' G Parameshwara took oath as the deputy CM of the state.

In his tweet targeting the Modi government, Rahul Gandhi claimed that the future of civil services aspirants was in danger as the RSS wants to 'manipulate' the system of cadre allocation.

According to sources, there is a proposal to have two deputy chief ministers to strike a balance between the two parties. Congress's G Parameshwara is frontrunner for the deputy chief minister's post.

Addressing his first press conference after BS Yeddyurappa resigned before floor test last week, Amit Shah said the Congress has found a new way of portraying defeat as its victory.

The Congress has no right to preach about Constitution and Democracy. It is the same party which banned the media during emergency. We snatched 14 states from them, but they are celebrating our defeats in a few bypolls.

The Congress, which won 78 seats in comparison to Kumaraswamy's party's 38, will get the lion's share of the ministries, although the portfolios are yet to be worked out.

Clarifying that no discussion has taken place so far on the allocation of ministerial berths, Kumaraswamy termed reports on the power-sharing formula of 30 months each between the parties as "bogus".

Gandhi, who addressed the media shortly after Yeddyurappa announced his resignation, as the Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) could not muster the numbers in the assembly, said the Congress will work with other opposition parties to defeat the BJP.   

However, questions are being raised on the surprising move by the two allies, more than a year after elections were held to the respective assemblies which appeared to be aimed at embarrassing the BJP.

Meanwhile, newly sworn in Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa today said he was "100 per cent sure" of winning the vote of confidence in the assembly and completing the five-year term.

BJP legislature party leader B S Yeddyurappa was on Thursday sworn in as the chief minister of Karnataka for a second time, after an overnight high-voltage legal battle in the Supreme Court which refused to stay his swearing-in.